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Indian officials say their country plans to build a satellite tracking and imaging center in southern Vietnam, which would give Hanoi access to images of the region from Indian earth observation satellites, including China and the South China Sea, Reuters reported.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will not meet his Russian or Chinese counterparts at this week's G20 meeting in New Delhi, accusing Moscow of not being serious about ending the war in Ukraine. "We all know the simple truth" he says, "the war could end tomorrow, it could end today if President Putin so decided." SOUNDBITE
The US Justice chief accuses China of interfering with the American justice system as he announces indictments of 13 Chinese nationals who allegedly worked for Beijing's spy agencies. Three separate cases unveiled showed that "the government of China sought to interfere with the rights and freedoms of individuals in the United States and to undermine our judicial system that protects those rights," says Attorney General Merrick Garland. SOUNDBITE
France's Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and the Minister of Health Olivier V֤éran arrive at a branch of the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) in Lyon. Since the beginning of January, the government has set up a "public alimony service", which enables separated or divorced couples to entrust the family allowance or agricultural social mutual insurance funds (MSA) to an intermediary for the payment of these pensions and aims to limit unpaid alimony, a situation which affects 350,000 separated parents, 85% of whom are mothers. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe meets with representatives from rail union Unsa in Paris over plans to reform the state operator SNCF. IMAGES